William Forde "Bill" Thompson is an academic who has worked in Canada, Sweden and Australia. He is a distinguished professor at

Macquarie University Macquarie University ( ) is a public research university based in Sydney, Australia, in the suburb of Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of S ...

in Sydney, Australia, where he was chair of the psychology department between 2009 and 2013. His research focuses on music, emotion, expertise, and performance. From 2007 to 2009, he was president of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. He was an associate editor at ''

Music Perception ''Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by University of California Press five times a year. It was founded by Diana Deutsch. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has ...

'', former editor of '' Empirical Musicology Review'' (2008–2010), and chief investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders. He is a

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of the

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. Born in

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, US, Thompson holds a

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in psychology from

McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill Universit ...

(Montreal, Canada) and an MA and PhD in psychology from Queen's University (

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). He is the author of '' Music, Thought, and Feeling: Understanding the Psychology of Music'', Oxford University Press S 2009 (1st edition), 2014 (2nd edition), editor for the ''Encyclopedia of Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences'' published by Sage Press in 2014, and co-editor of ''The Science and Psychology of Music: From Beethoven at the Office to Beyonce at the Gym'', published by Greenwood in 2021. In addition to his academic work, Thompson has composed and performed music for a number of films and plays, including several by his sister, Canadian playwright

Judith Thompson Judith Clare Thompson, OC (born September 20, 1954) is a Canadian playwright who lives in Toronto, Ontario. She has twice been awarded the Governor General's Award for drama, and is the recipient of many other awards including the Order of Canad ...

. He is the grandson of former Australian prime minister

Frank Forde Francis Michael Forde (18 July 189028 January 1983) was an Australian politician who served as prime minister of Australia from 6 to 13 July 1945. He was the deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1932 to 1946. He served as pri ...

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Music, Thought, and Feeling HomepageF. Thompson HomepageThe Science and Psychology of Music (2021
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